Top 223 Quotes & Sayings by Peruvian Authors - Page 2

I'm really in no one city more than two months during the year. I'm constantly having to readapt my eye to new locations.

Oh my God, the graduate shows in London are so important! I still remember going to see John Galliano's graduate collection - that was an event I'll never forget.

I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.

With television, I worked on 'Lost,' where you'd just put your faith in the writers and go with what they're writing.

You don't buy experience at the pharmacy. You acquire it through games over time. Every player must go through that, but when the federation hired me, they told me they wanted new players and young players who will prepare for the future.

I do a lot of decision making before each shoot. It's a luxury to be able to choose what you do.

Faulkner was the first novelist I read with pen and paper in hand because his technique stunned me.

There's a particular style that is very Peru that you don't see anywhere else; it's got so many different imprints. When you mix Incan minimalism with the heavy, ornate Spanish Baroque, it is very interesting.

I have no real training in the history of fine art or furniture; my eye just works by proportions. I react intuitively. In London, it's all about color because the weather is so gray, and in that cold light they look beautiful.

Many people when I started didn't believe I was a good fashion photographer, and probably they still think that.

I expect that after the election and the results that the international community will understand which was the framework of this process and under which law we have done this process.

Latin America seemed to be a land where there were only dictators, revolutionaries, catastrophes. Now we know that Latin America can produce also artists, musicians, painters, thinkers, and novelists.

Fine artists reflect, and then they act. Fashion photographers - we act, and then we reflect.

Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike, based on laws of physics that you don't understand, in a new universe. So having written one novel does nothing for you when you have to write the second one.

And $18 million in three Japanese banks, completely false. That I have two factories in Panama, also completely false. This is part of the counter campaign of some people.

Around age 38, there was a slight change to my voice, and very much in the center. That made it possible to start thinking about certain roles: Guillaume Tell, Romeo, Edgardo. These roles require a fuller center.

I feel like I'm part of television history.

When I was young, I was a passionate reader of Sartre. I've read the American novelists, in particular the lost generation - Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Dos Passos - especially Faulkner. Of the authors I read when I was young, he is one of the few who still means a lot to me.

Each book, for me, has been an adventure, a period of time dedicated to study, to document certain facts, to traveling, and also to fantasize and to invent.

I think yellow journalism is something that appears everywhere, in the underdeveloped and developed worlds alike.

I think that literature has the important effect of creating free, independent, critical citizens who cannot be manipulated.

Now we are showing to the world that this fighting against two terrorist groups was feasible and now we have an isolated case which doesn't mean that terrorism is alive, as it was before.

I think that literature is something that embraces a much larger experience than politics. It's an expression of what is life, of what are all the dimensions of life. But politics is one among others.

I was absolutely convinced that I wouldn't win the Nobel Prize. My impression was that the Nobel Prize in Literature was given to people more or less affiliated with, let's say, socialist ideas, and that was not my case.

When I see Kate Moss out and about, I think she looks more beautiful than when her hairdresser and make-up artist try and make her look like something else. And I remember when Madonna first asked Versace to book me to shoot a campaign with her, she came to see me wearing hardly any make-up, and she looked incredible.

A lot of photographers like models to be blank canvases - but bland girls don't influence me. I don't like playing with dolls; I like playing with people.

To write is a relief from life's problems. It is a way in which you revenge yourself. In art, the writer achieves utopia. But any attempt to achieve social utopia is bound to catastrophe. If you want a society of saints, the result is hell, repression, totalitarianism, and persecution.

It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

I grew up listening to popular music. My father was a Peruvian folk singer. He played the guitar at home. He sang songs with a waltzing rhythm, yet you can still hear the Spanish influences. I accompanied him to his performances.

Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate.

'Scandal' is a huge hit. I'm happy for them, but it was never a really good fit for me.

I am obsessed with people and how to make them look their best.

I was a theater actor back in the U.K., and you knew the whole play, so you could plot your storyline and character. And then I did 'Lost' and didn't know, and it was kind of frustrating, but I enjoyed it.

I now have plans to create a school for singers in Vienna, and I would love to found one in the Middle East, too, if possible.

The viewing figures for 'Lost' were huge. I don't think the viewing figures for 'The 100' are up there with 'Lost'; hopefully, they will be.

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.

I like thinking about what could be out there, and I love the questions that sci-fi poses.

My parents never really wanted me to be a musician at all, because in Peru you don't earn any money that way. But when they realised it was genuinely what I wanted to do, they supported me always.

I did work a lot in Scots theatre, but I was never really successful in Scottish film or TV until I went down to London - and I had to go to the U.S. to get my big break.

I don't like a tormented photograph. Something attracts you in them, but the attraction isn't because she has a pot on her head or tonnes of make-up and weird clothes and weird everything.

Literature is dangerous: it awakens a rebellious attitude in us.

Everyone is in a rush in New York, even in restaurants and in cafes. You dont have the serenity. That, I think, is very important in order to read.

In 1975, I went to the Dominican Republic for eight months during the shooting of a film based on my novel 'Captain Pantoja and the Special Service.' It was during this period I heard and read about Trujillo.

When you're nice, people like you and will want to work with you. But it can mean that they take you for granted.

Reality is the richest thing there is, the most important thing there is. Our imagination allows us to live an artificial life that is wonderful, extremely rich, but I don't believe any artist would dare to say that artifice is better than real life.

I didn't grow up with classical music. My father was a folk music singer.

I think spontaneous and free reactions are the most natural.

I love my life.

I played the guitar. When I was 14, I composed songs - Paul McCartney-style things. I had a rock band - we'd compete in festivals.

I work very hard, you know, but I don't think that I'm working, because what I do pleases me so much. I write about certain things because certain things happen to me.

Iraq is better without Saddam Hussein than with Saddam Hussein. Without a doubt.

What we are doing in fact is recovering and progressing and sustaining the recovery of our democracy.

I like romantic comedies, as it is a fun and light thing to get involved with.

I started being a photographer because I liked fashion. I liked the idea of dressing up and changing my look. I got earrings, dyed my hair. I would dress like a fashion photo.

I adore being able to go to the Oscars and know every single person at the party afterwards.

The investor knows quite well that we don't have anymore the widespread terrorism here in Peru.

Little by little, when I was doing auditions in New York, I discovered I was good. People there were enthusiastic.

I remember how my world expanded in amazing fashion by that magical operation of translating words into images, and images into stories.

Even someone as photographed and aware of the camera as members of the royal family needs to feel completely comfortable if they are to look their best.